1. Elon Musk - 467.9 billion USD
Elon Musk co-founded seven companies, including electric vehicle company Tesla, missile maker SpaceX, and artificial intelligence startup xAI.
He owns about 12% of Tesla, a company he first invested in 2004 and led as CEO since 2008.
In 2024, a Delaware judge terminated a 2018 settlement that allowed Musk to receive a stock option equivalent to an additional 9% stake in Tesla. Forbes has reduced the value of these options to 50% while waiting for Musk's appeal results.
SpaceX, founded in 2002, is valued at $400 billion based on a private equity offering in August 2025. Musk is estimated to own 42% of the shares.
Musk bought Twitter in a $44 billion deal (business value) in 2022. He merged Twitter with xAI in March in a consolidated company valuation deal of $113 billion, including debt.
Musk also founded the tunnel digging startup The Boring Company and brain transplant company Neuralink. These two startups have raised a total of about 2 billion USD from private investors.
2. Larry Ellison - 275 billion USD
Larry Ellison is the Chairman, CTO and co-founder of the software giant Oracle, where he owns about 40% of its shares.
Ellison stepped down as CEO of Oracle in 2014 after 37 years of leadership.
In September 2025, he became the second person in history to have assets exceeding 400 billion USD, thanks to a shareholder increase of Oracle driven by an explosion of artificial intelligence.
In 2020, Ellison moved to live permanently on Hawaii's Lanai Island, where he bought almost the entire island for $300 million in 2012.
Ellison served on Tesla's Board of Directors from 2018 to 2022. Before leaving the position of director, he owned 45 million shares (adjusted for division).
Ellison also owns nearly 50% of Paramount Skydance, a media group formed after a merger of nearly $28 billion (business value) between Paramount and Skydance of his son, David, in August 2025.
3. Jeff Bezos - 245.9 billion USD
Billionaire Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce group Amazon in 1994 from his garage in Seattle.
Bezos stepped down as CEO to become CEO in 2021. He owns 8% of the company's shares. He and his wife MacKenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of living together, and he transferred her a quarter of the total 16% of the Amazon stake he held at that time.
In 2020, Bezos pledged to donate $10 billion to climate causes by 2030 through the Bezos Earth Fund; To date, he has sponsored 2 billion USD.
He owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company that develops missiles; he flew into space on a short flight in 2021.
In an interview with CNN in 2022, Bezos said he planned to give away most of his assets throughout his lifetime, but did not disclose specific details.
4. Larry page - 228.3 billion USD
Larry Page left the CEO position of Alphabet, Google's parent company, in 2019 but was still a member of the board of directors and controlling shareholder.
He co-founded Google in 1998 with Sergey Brin, a PhD student at Stanford.
Together with Brin, Page invented Google's pageRank algorithm, the core technology that operates search engines.
Page served as CEO until 2001, when Eric Schmidt took over, and then from 2011 to 2015, when he became CEO of Alphabet, the newly established parent company of Google.
5. Sergey Brin $211.7 billion
Sergey Brin left the position of Chairman of Alphabet, Google's parent company, in December 2019 but was still a member of the board of directors and controlling shareholder.
Brin moved to the United States from Russia when he was six, after his family faced a wave of Buddhist teachings.
He co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998 after they met at Stanford University during his college years in computer science.
Google was launched in 2004 and began trading under the name Alphabet, a new parent company, in 2015.
Brin has donated more than $1.5 billion to parkinsins' research and focused on charity work on diseases related to the central nervous system and climate change.
